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12AUSTIN'S HAWAIIAN WEEKLY.Echoes of Religious Thought.BY W. K. Azbill.God sons our fellowmenSave them from every sin -Make them thine own;From heaven, thy dwelling placeLook on our helpless race,Save them through Jesus' grace.Thou Holy Une.Teach us to know thy word,O, thou our only LordThy will be doneBid all our strifes to cease,Let ChrUtain love Increase,Give us thine own sweet peace,Oh, Make us One."Whatsoever you would not thatmen should do to you, do you notto them." Confucius."Whatsoever ye would that menshould do unto you, do ye even soto them." Jesus.When the priest and the Levite,on the way to Jericho, passed bytheir unfortunate countryman without showing any indignity or adding any thing to his discomfortas they would not have liked another to do to them they werewithin the requirement of the golden rule of Confucius ; but when theGood Samaritan took him up andcarried him on his own beast toan inn, and provided for the sufferer's cure, keep and comfort, he waswithin the requirement of theGolden Rule of Jesus, The discipleof Confucius is taught to refrainfrom evil; the disciple of Christ isurged to do good. The one waymay be good, though there aretimes when non-interference is acrime; but the other is far better,and not only justifies but requiresintervention for tne welfare of theabused.SSI VS 58The contentions of the "highercritics," and all the other critics,continue without abatement, especially in the religious journals ; andone ' of the striking things aboutthese contentions is the persistencewith which the critics misunderstand one another. From ages longgone the devoutest of Christianmen have taken the lead in thehigher Biblical criticism, which relates to the composition of documents, rather than to the thoughtwhich they contain yet, thereis a disposition in a certainquarter to regard all higher criticism and all higher critics asskeptics and as destroyers ofthe Bible. On the other hand, during recent years, a studious butreckless tribe of literary critics hasarisen whose succeeding generations are kept busy pointing out themistakes of their ancestors, andwho seem disposed to take to themselves the honor of being the onlyhigher critics. Every week bringsitems and comments on "the latesttrend," or "the most recent point ofview," or "the results of the finalfindings" of the most enlightenedcritics, which greatly modify or elsecompletely upset the profoundesttheories of the previous week. Inthe meanwhile, the Bible and faithin the Bible remain undisturbed,not because the believers are eitherignorant or indifferent, but becauseit has come to be understood thatthe critics have yet a good deal todo before they can pronounce afinal judgment.58 - MSThe May number of the 'Hoiniletic Rcviczv has an able paper fromthe pen of Prof. Charles M. Mead,D.D., New Haven, Conn., on Tendencies of Recent Tltcistic Thought,in which ( i ) The scientific foundation of theistic belief itself, (2)The Divine personality, and (3)The moral character as an important part of the Divine personality, are the chief points discussed.On the first point evolution is considered to have an important bearing. There are two types of evolutionists ; the theistic and the atheistic. The theistic define evolution asthe divine method of working; theatheistic define it as a process ofdevelopment which dispenses withthe divine altogether. This viewthe learned professor disposes ofwith a rcductio ad absurdum, yethe admits that evolution has modified the old theology, though it hasnot extirpated it. The followingtwo sentences embody the mainthought of this section of his paper :"It (evolution) has compelled us tolay less stress on individual adaptations of means to ends; but it hasall the more compelled us to inquire for the purposes of the wholeprocess, and to believe there is, sucha purpose, even if it is not yet fullydiscovered. Evolutionhas tended to make natural theology less an accumulation of distinct arguments, ; andhas forced theologians to lay stresson the deeper principle which underlies all the arguments the natural and irrepressable feeling thatthere must be a reason for allthings, and that the reason must befound in a reasonable person."M S&In America as well as in Englanda good deal is being written, chieflyin the religious press, in remonstrance against the publication ofSunday papers. Those who makea plea for a day of rest have thebetter part of the contention; butthey should object also to the Monday morning paper which must beedited and printed in the end of"the Lord's day." The EvangelicalMessenger, Cleveland, remarks that"what is a good argument for theSunday newspaper, is good forother forms of Sabbath desecration," seeming to forget that it isnot the reading of a paper on Sunday or any other clay that defiles aman or desecrates a day, but thecontents of the paper read. TheCommonwealth, Philidelphia, withreference to the difficulty of preserving the reverent and spirituallife, and the withstanding of thepressure of the world upon thechurch, adds wisely that "new difficulties and dangers do not implythat Christianity will suffer defeat ;they rather call for a more pronounced and aggressive attitudetowards everything that opposesand hinders the kingdom of God."It might be added that it is needfulfor the church to pass through everypossible phase of trial and dangerfor the development of every possible virtue and grace.The British-flmerieanSteamship Line.Freight contracted through fromany point In the United States to theHawaiian Islunds In connection withthe Great Northern, Northern Pacificor Canadian Pacific Railways. Monthly service from Seattle and Tacomawith our new A-l, 6000 ton steamer,the "Port Albert."The International Lesson Paraphrased. Colossians 3:1-15.1. If you then were raised out of 'the water of your baptism (see v.12) as Christ arose from the grave,and are identified with Christ in thenew life, which is endless, aim tomake the seat of Christ at the righthand of the Throne of the Universeyour view point, and2. Let your emotions arise fromthis superior view of human life,and not from any narrow or selfishview ;3. For you are dead to all motives save those which control thelife of Christ and your life is merged with Christ's in the Deity himself. 4. When Christ shall appear,whose life is henceforth identicalwith ours in nature and purpose,then God also shall appear with himin the glory of the triumph andsupremacy of the right and the ,good.5. Therefore, you should killevery low and degrading desire ofthe flesh, as fornication, unclean- 1ness, passion, evil desire, and cove- 'tousness which is a form of idol- 'atry (as it indicates a trust inworldly possessions instead of faithin God who promises to provide) ;6. On which account, according 'to the creative arrangements of thenatural as well as the spiritualworld, hardships fall upon the disobedient ;7. In which course of disobedience you were walking before yourenounced the worldly and selfish 'life and adopted the Christ's idea oflife. 18. But now you have put off allthose things, such as anger, (whichis dangerous), wrath, (which iscruel), malice, (which is mean),railing, (which is presumptuous),and shameful speaking, (which isdegrading), unworthy of a Christian's mouth;9. Do not lie nor deceive oneanother, since you have renouncedevery motive which would lead todeception (which is of the Devil) ;for10. You have assumed the character of the new man who, throughthe higher and better knowledge oflife's essence and aim, is restoredto the image of God the Creator,1 T . 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